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In 1999, American Express introduced the Centurion Card, a black charge card aimed at the company's wealthiest cardholders. [2] In a 2018 episode of the Netflix show Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, Jerry Seinfeld, who appeared in American Express commercials in the 1990s, claimed to have received the first Centurion card after contacting the ...
On February 25, 1870, Hiram Rhodes Revels was seated as the first black member of the Senate, while Blanche Bruce, also of Mississippi, seated in 1875, was the second. Revels was the first black member of the Congress overall. Black people were a majority of the population in many congressional districts across the South.